White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday.  “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious.  The collective silence by the left …

Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile  —  Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.  —  Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.

Dinesh D'Souza?  Really?  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  The handful of pardons that President Trump has granted so far may appear to be scattershot …

LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats  —  Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels.  —  But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …

Scoop: Trump repeatedly pressured Sessions on Mueller investigation  —  President Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reclaim control of the Russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged  —  Investigators from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office recently interviewed former FBI director James B. Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law by lying to federal agents …

Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying.  BSO said no.  —  During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.

I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman.  It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.  —  Let's start at the beginning.  —  I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.”  I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.

Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter  —  The MSNBC host's controversial old blog posts continue to surface, as Reid and the network stick to hacking claims.  —  MSNBC host Joy Reid's new-defunct blog published an image …

Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party  —  Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.  —  In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results …

Robert Mueller Reveals The Price Tag For His Special Counsel Investigation  —  The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has cost nearly $17 million dollars so far, according to a new report from the Justice Department.

One Reform to Save America  —  There are a bunch of different ways to do democracy.  In Western Europe, most countries have proportional representation and a lot of different parties representing voter interests.  In this country we've gone with a two-party system and winner-take-all elections.

The Curious Case of Mr. Downer  —  His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question.  —  To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …

Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US  — Trump reportedly told French President Emmanuel Macron last month that he would maintain his trade policy with the aim of stopping Mercedes-Benz models from driving down Fifth Avenue in New York.

Trump's Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec  —  @AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years.  She can't hide anymore.  —  She was supposed to be a Russian bot.  That seemed like the best explanation for @AmyMek.  No normal person could be so prolific and prejudiced.

Rubio Campaign Volunteer and Ex-Florida Lawmaker Says Obama Looks Like a Monkey … Susan Goldstein previously served as a Florida state representative for western Broward County from 2004 to 2006.  She's now a prominent figure in Tallahassee and serves on the board of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists.

APNewsBreak: Expelled Venezuela diplomat stays in US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Venezuelan diplomat expelled by the Trump administration last week in retaliation for President Nicolas Maduro's kicking out of the top American diplomat in Caracas has remained in the U.S. despite an order to leave the country within 48 hours.

Southern Co., CVS, Dow Chemical Funding Trump Dark Money Group Tied to Racist, Anti-Semitic Views  —  Three Fortune 500 companies have donated at least $1.6 million to a controversial pro-Trump “dark money” organization that's been criticized for racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-Muslim sentiments expressed by its staff.

THE MEDIA'S UNDENIABLE PRO-TRUMP BIAS  —  There is almost no point in writing a lede to this piece, given how likely it is that President Trump will do something disgraceful before it can be edited and published—so instead let's use that likelihood as the entire premise.

Tommy Robinson Drew Attention to ‘Grooming Gangs.’ Britain Has Persecuted Him.  —  The latest controversy is maddening for many reasons.  —  Tommy Robinson is a British political activist and “citizen journalist” who came to prominence in Britain almost a decade ago when he founded the English Defence League.

At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office  —  MSNBC's Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket.  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least eight white nationalists are running, more than ever before.

Death toll in Nicaragua nears 100 as Ortega vows to stay  —  MANAGUA - The death toll from weeks of violent unrest in Nicaragua rose to almost 100 as embattled President Daniel Ortega rejected calls to step down and the Catholic church, which has tried to mediate the conflict, Thursday refused to resume the dialogue.